Page 58 of The Goddess is Angry
“Then I guess it’s a good thing you’re fucking the one god they all fear. They can’t even team up on you because you can rip their essence out, too.”
Oscar and Ren started laughing.
“Or you could use their power against them,” Ren laughed. “Does this mean if you’re around me, you could have sexy ears and tails?”
“Yeah, but you’d have to teach me because I don’t know how. All I really know how to do at this point is witchcraft and some of Azren’s magic.”
“Awesome! You aren’t allowed to have more tails than me until I have all nine.”
“My Abuela is going to lose her shit,” Oscar said. “All through Yule break, she kept telling us not to fuck it up with the pretty witch who knew sign language and Spanish. When she finds out she can teach you family magic, she’s going to lose it. If you want to learn it.”
“Um, yes!”
“Our girlfriend is a geek,” Drake said.
I flipped him off with both hands and he blew me a kiss. West came in after that. He picked me up and sat in my desk chair with me in his lap. West kissed the top of my head.
“Church will come around. He just needs five minutes to be stupid.”
“We’ll talk to him,” Oscar said.
“He’s allowed to have his feelings,” I said.
“I can’t imagine being mad your girlfriend is practically invincible,” Ren said.
“It’s the lying thing,” I pointed out.
“If your girlfriend lies about being a god, you find out why,” Drake said.
I hoped so. I didn’t want to lose Church.
sol
That was a game changer. I was in the dining hall when everything went down with Lindsay Krauss and her daughter. I never liked that woman. She was rude and sometimes she’d drop things just to make me pick them up. I wasn’t going to miss her. I always liked Gabriel Morningstar. He was going to be an amazing headmaster.
And George Bell was a god.
I knew what I had to do. I waited until her boyfriends left and then I knocked on her door. I braced myself because she could totally flip out and hurt me. She peered out curiously and then smiled when she saw me.
“Sol! Come in. I meant to follow up with you, but I got caught up with school and I think you were avoiding me, big guy.”
Follow up with me? Was she flirting? A fuckinggod?She’d been arranging the flowers I left her all over her dorm room. Her twin smiled at me, but her girlfriend didn’t. I made the girlfriend uncomfortable.
“Follow up with me about what?”
“Because you have the same color eyes as me, you’re the same size as my dad, and I can feel you’resupposedto have magic.”
“You aren’t a null,” her twin’s girlfriend said. “They don’t feel like you. You make people uncomfortable because it’s not like you were born this way. You feel like someonetookyour magic, and no one wants that to happen to them.”
“What do my eyes and size have to do with that?”
“Only gods have silver eyes. You’re large enough and pretty enough to be one.”
“I’m not a god, George.”
If I was, there wouldn’t be so much I didn’t fucking know. I never got sick, but my head wasn’t right. Gods weren’t blacking out all over the place with no memory of what happened when they came to and leaving behind a trail of bodies. Didn’t most people automatically adore them?
“I think you might be related to one. My cousin and I both ended up gods, but sometimes, when gods mix with mortals, their kids don’t end up gods. I’ve never met one, but back when Zeus and the rest of his family were being
